ix, 306 pages : 20 cm

In The Age of Knights and Friars, Popes and Reformers Christian author and historian Leigh Churchill applies his story-teller's craft to the history of Christianity from AD 1000 to the eve of the Reformation

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index

The Christian Vikings -- Santiago and the Spanish Reconquest -- The Tusculan popes -- Meinwerk the Magpie -- Simony, celibacy and a musical lashing -- The king of the sea and the Battle of Hastings -- Canossa -- The Holy Land -- Logic and superstition -- Anselm, scholar and statesman -- Abelard and Heloise -- Wives and whores -- Putty and swamp-dwellers -- The Second and Third Crusades -- Arnold of Brescia -- Becket of Canterbury -- The poor men of Lyons -- Hildegard and Joachim -- Francis of Assisi -- The Spanish friar -- Innocent III and the Unholy Crusade -- The Children's Crusade -- The curious fate of certain old bones -- Elizabeth and the Inquisitor -- Cruel shepherds -- For God and the ladies -- The return of Aristotle -- The angelic doctor -- Ramon Lull -- The fall of the papal empire -- The divine comedy -- Angela of Foligno -- A brief meeting of East and West -- The Avignon exile -- The Black Death -- The plight of the Jews -- What is worse than one pope? -- John Wyclif -- The Waldenses -- The new mysticism -- The Czech Reformation -- The Maid of Orleans -- The last days of the Byzantines -- The Renaissance -- Witch-hunt -- The Spanish Inquisition -- A few faithful witnesses -- and the Borgia pope -- The prophet of Florence -- Martin Luther -- When the story continues

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